IP Library Granted Patent US 11,408,841
Granted Patent B2
US 11,408,841 · App. 16/559,746 · Granted Aug 9, 2022

Thermal conductivity measuring device, heating device, thermal conductivity measuring method, and quality assurance method

Inventor: Yohei Fujikawa (Hikone, JP)
Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
G01N25/18G01J5/12G01K1/143G01K13/12G01K7/08
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Patent No.
US 11,408,841
App. No.
16/559,746
Granted
Aug 9, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A thermal conductivity measuring device includes a sample container that has a plurality of storage sections; a drive unit that is configured to move the plurality of storage sections of the sample container; and a radiation thermometer that is configured to measure the temperature of a predetermined position of the sample container.

Claims (60)

1. A thermal conductivity measuring device comprising:

a sample container that has a plurality of storage sections;

a drive unit that is configured to move the plurality of storage sections of the sample container; and

a radiation thermometer that is configured to measure a temperature of a surface of the sample container, wherein

a standard sample having known thermal conductivity is installed in at least one of the storage sections, and an object sample which is needed to obtain thermal conductivity is installed in the other storage sections.

2. The thermal conductivity measuring device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the drive unit is configured to rotate the sample container.

3. The thermal conductivity measuring device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the drive unit is configured to rotate the sample container, and

the radiation thermometer is fixed and measure each temperature of the surfaces of the storage sections of the sample container which is rotated.

4. The thermal conductivity measuring device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the sample container has a circle shape or a doughnut shape in a plan view, and is rotatable by the drive unit, and

the sample container has an exposed main surface which is selected from an upper surface, a side surface and a lower surface thereof, and the storage sections, in which a sample to be measured is installed, are provided in the exposed main surface, and

the radiation thermometer is fixed at a position which faces to the exposed main surface.

5. The thermal conductivity measuring device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the sample container has a doughnut-like disk shape, or cylindrical shape.

6. The thermal conductivity measuring device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first part of the heat-insulating material has a temperature measurement hole for the radiation thermometer.

7. A heating device comprising:

a heat source;

a sample container that is provided on an upper surface or a side surface of the heat source and has a plurality of storage sections;

a drive unit that is configured to rotate the heat source and thereby rotate the sample container together with the heat source;

a radiation thermometer that is configured to measure a temperature of a surface of the sample container; and

a heat-insulating material that covers at least a portion of a surface of the heat source,

wherein the heat-insulating material forms at least a space that surrounds the sample container,

wherein a surface of the sample container opposite to the heat source is exposed to the space that is surrounded by the heat-insulating material, and

wherein the heat-insulating material has

a first part which surrounds a lateral side of the heat source,

a second part which surrounds an upper side of the heat source, and

a third part which surrounds a lower side of the heat source,

wherein

the first part and the third part forms a first space in which the heat source is provided, and

the second part forms a second space in which the sample container is provided,

a thickness of the first part is larger than that of the second part, and

the second part has a temperature measurement hole for the radiation thermometer.

8. A thermal conductivity measuring method comprising:

a measurement step of moving a standard sample and an object sample within a sample container that has a plurality of sections to measure temperatures of the standard sample and the object sample at same position; and

a derivation step of obtaining a thermal conductivity, of the object sample in a measurement environment on the basis of the respective temperatures measured in the measurement step.

9. The thermal conductivity measuring method according to claim 8 ,

wherein in the measurement step, the standard sample and the object sample are rotationally moved and the temperatures of the standard sample and the object sample are measured at the same position.

10. The thermal conductivity measuring method according to claim 8 ,

wherein in the measurement step, measurement environment is selected, environment is set to the selected measurement environment, and the temperatures of the samples are measured using a fixed radiation thermometer under the selected and set measurement environment.

11. The thermal conductivity measuring method according to claim 8 ,

wherein the derivation step includes

a step of forming a calibration curve using simulation, wherein known thermal conductivities of the standard sample and a comparative sample are provided on a horizontal axis, and a difference obtained by subtracting a measured temperature of the comparative sample from a calculated temperature of the standard sample is provided on a vertical axis, wherein the calculated temperatures are obtained in simulation, and

a step of determining the thermal conductivity of the object sample by obtaining a difference between the temperature of the standard sample and the temperature of the object sample measured in the measurement step, and applying the difference to the calibration curve.

12. The thermal conductivity measuring method according to claim 8 ,

wherein the temperatures of at least two standard samples and at least one object sample are measured at the same position in the measurement step and,

in the derivation step, a confirmation is performed whether or not there is a combination of the measured temperatures of the standard samples wherein the measured temperature of the object sample falls between the measured temperatures of the standard samples, and if there is such a combination, it is determined that the object sample has a thermal conductivity which falls between thermal conductivities of the standard samples in the combination.

13. A quality assurance method comprising:

a measurement step of moving a first standard sample having a first thermal conductivity value, a second standard sample having a second thermal conductivity value, and an object ample within a sample container that has a plurality of sections, and measuring temperatures of the first standard sample, the second standard sample, and the object sample at same position; respectively; and

a determination step of determining whether or not a measured third temperature of the object sample falls between a first temperature of the first standard sample and a second temperature of the second standard sample that are measured.

14. The quality assurance method according to claim 13 , wherein the temperatures of the standards samples and the object sample are measured in the measurement step with a fixed radiation thermometer.

15. The quality assurance method according to claim 13 , wherein a thermal conductivity measuring device is used, wherein the device comprises:

a sample container that has a plurality of storage sections;

a drive unit that is configured to move the plurality of storage sections of the sample container; and

a radiation thermometer that is configured to measure a temperature of a surface of the sample container.

16. The quality assurance method according to claim 15 , wherein

the thermal conductivity measuring device includes a heat source which is located to contact with the sample container, and

the drive unit is configured to rotate the sample container.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Feb 14, 2024
From: RESONAC CORPORATION
To: RESONAC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 066599/0037 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 23, 2023
From: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
To: RESONAC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 064082/0513 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 4, 2019
From: FUJIKAWA, YOHEI
To: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
Reel/Frame 050259/0376 →